The nice folks in Gawker's advertising department like throwing parties and they've decided to throw one for Jalopnik readers who are in or near San Francisco this Saturday. They'll also give you all the chance to win an Xbox One and a copy of Forza 5. Details below. » 11/11/13 5:07pm 11/11/13 5:07pm

The world of eSports is growing day by day and that means more events with larger prize pools than ever before. But that can also lead to collisions in scheduling for some of the biggest eSports tournaments. » 7/23/13 5:15pm 7/23/13 5:15pm

Earlier this year, we all had a laugh along with/at the expense of a handful of video game industry hopefuls competing in the PlayStation Network reality show The Tester. Sadly, I won't be liveblogging the series' next season. » 9/21/10 10:00pm 9/21/10 10:00pm

Instead of just coughing up an MSRP for Kinect, Microsoft's doing the announcement-of-an-announcement thing. But you can join up a Facebook page or text an SMS code to make sure you get immediate notification the sucker's $149. Or whatever. » 7/15/10 10:30pm 7/15/10 10:30pm

Readers, I'm sorry to report that Activision Blizzard's investment in Kotaku is not paying the dividends that we'd originally hoped and that Koticku will be ending its brief run, effectively immediately. All remaining Koticku staff has been let go. » 4/01/10 7:00pm 4/01/10 7:00pm

Now that Sega has shipped Platinum Games' infinite climax action game Bayonetta to stores, the third release from the developer after Madworld and Infinite Space, what's next for the developer? Countdown clock teasers! » 1/04/10 4:40pm 1/04/10 4:40pm

Just a reminder that come Monday, Live goes dead for 24 hours » 9/27/08 12:00pm 9/27/08 12:00pm

UK-based Rare, along with the University of Warwick's computer science department, are co-organizing a September 2008 Women in Games conference aimed at promoting careers for women in the game industry, and have just announced the ladies who'll be delivering keynote speeches. » 6/09/08 6:20pm 6/09/08 6:20pm

All of you have awesome powers of deductive reasoning, so once you saw that you could neither comment nor read stories around 3pm Crecente Time today, you probably knew this was a major site problem and not some passive-aggressive ploy to see if you still cared about us. » 6/01/08 1:25am 6/01/08 1:25am

Konami hosted their Gamer's Night last evening in San Francisco, hot on the heels of Sega's Gamer's Morning and Ubisoft's Gamer's Afternoon. It had already been a long day by the time I arrived and my brain was already ful of tons of other games. This didn't stop Konami from making quite an impression with a few key… » 5/15/08 3:00pm 5/15/08 3:00pm